Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757350AbXLHI6j (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:58:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755839AbXLHI6b (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:58:31 -0500 Received: from dallas.jonmasters.org ([72.29.103.172]:43996 "EHLO dallas.jonmasters.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753681AbXLHI6b (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:58:31 -0500 Subject: Re: Possible EXT2 race From: Jon Masters To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" Cc: Dave Jones , Linux kernel In-Reply-To: References: <20071207165101.GA26631@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: World Organi[sz]ation Of Broken Dreams Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:57:54 -0500 Message-Id: <1197104274.6899.3.camel@perihelion> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 (2.12.0-3.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Do-Not-Run: Yes X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 74.92.29.237 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jonathan@jonmasters.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on dallas.jonmasters.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1147 Lines: 29 On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 13:58 -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:15:42AM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > > > > > Dec 7 04:05:55 chaos kernel: sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Peripheral device write fault > > > > This sounds more like a hardware problem. > There was an attempt to write beyond the end of the device because > everything in the file-system was getting trashed. I can read/write > the 5 year-old SCSI physical drive with no errors from both within > linux and through the Adaptec BIOS. This problem only occurs > when I attempt to truncate a file that is being written by another > task. Well, that might be how you can reproduce it, but this is almost certainly a hardware problem and not EXT2 at fault - the filesystem can only do just so much once its data has been corrupted by an old disk. Jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/